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6 GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
lies, to escape the certainty of famishing, left, late in the autumn
of 1712, for Schoharie Valley, some sixty miles north-west
of Livingston Manor. They had no open road, no horses to
carry or haul their luggage—this they loaded on rudely con-
structed sleds, and did tug these themselves, through a three-
feet-deep snow, which greatly obstructed their progress—their
way was through an unbroken forest, where and when the wind
was howling its hibernal dirge through leaf-stripped trees, amid
falling snow. It took them three full weeks. Having reached
Schoharie, they made improvements upon the lands, Queen Anne
had granted them. Here they remained about ten years, when,
owing to some defect in their titles, they were deprived of both
lands and improvements. In the Spring of 1723, thirty-three
families removed and settled in Pennsylvania, in Tulpehocken,
some fifteen miles west of Reading. A few years afterwards,
others followed them.*
The other dissatisfied Germans at Schoharie, who did not
choose to follow their friends to Pennsylvania, sought for and
found a future home on the frontiers in Mohawk Valley.
New Yoi'k was, at an early day, an asylum for the French Protestants,
or Huguenots. As early as 1656, they were already numerous
in that State ; ranking in number and wealth next to the Dutch. New
Rochelle, situated near the shore of Long Island sound, was settled
solely by Huguenots from Rochelle in France. "The emigrants purchased
of John Pell 6,000 acres of land. One venerable Huguenot, it
is related, would go daily to the shore, when, directing his eyes towards
(the direction) where he supposed France was situated, would
sing one of Marot's hymns, and send to heaven his early morning devotions.
Others joined him in these praises of their God, and remembrances
of their beloved native clime, from which they had been banished
by the merciless fires of persecution." Weiss' His. of French
Prot. Ref., IL, p. 304.
In Ulster and Dutchess counties, many of their descendants still reside.
In Ulster are the descendants of Dubois, Dian or Deyo ; Has-
broucq, orHasbrouck; Le Febre, Bevier, Crispell, Freir, &c.
names of males at New Rochelle in 1710, see App. No. XIII.
Queen Anne, who well understood the policy of England, to
retain her own subjects at home, encouraged the emigration of
Germans, sent some of those whom she had invited in 1708
and 1709, to Virginia; settled them above the falls of the
Rappahannock, in Spottsylvania county, where they commenced
* For a list of names of first settlers in Tulpehocken, see App. No. XIV.
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